“…Alexithymia has been found in patients suffering chronic pain with no identifiable cause, including patients with fibromyalgia (van Middendorp et al, 2008), depression and psychosomatic illnesses (Kusevic et al, 2013), high blood pressure, Crohn's disease, psychiatric patients (panic and anxiety disorders, depression), and those with kidney and rheumatic diseases (Marchesi et al, 2013;Sayar, Kirmayer, & Taillefer, 2004;Silva, Freitas, Moreira, Santos, & Almeida, 2016;Di Tella & Castelli, 2016). However, the prevalence of alexithymia has also been found to be as high as 7% among the general population (Steinweg, Dallas, & Rea, 2011) without any link to specific disorders (Cox, Kuch, Parker, Shulman, & Evans, 1994;Praceres et al, 2000;Yoshida, 2000Yoshida, , 2007.…”